Stitch and combined cuff and glove or mitten



Aug. 11, 1936.

c. GANsoN STITCH AND COMBINED CUF AND- GLOVE OR MITTEN Filed Jan.- 2S, 1934 wgTNEssEs 'l 'i l Patented Aug. 11, 1936 STITCH AND COMBINED CUFF AND GLOVE 0R MITTEN Application January 29, 1953.4', serial No. wasn l 2 claims. (ci. s6-174) This invention relates to the knitting industry andA particularly to a stitch and combined cuff and glove or mitten, the object being to provide an improved stitch whereby a pleasing cuir is produced `which may be readily connected to the hand of a glove or mitten without the usual care of transferring loops accurately.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved stitch wherein a piece of fabric is produced presenting Various forms of construction in a single piece of knit goods.

A further object of the invention is to provide a construction wherein a flat piece of knit fabric is formed into a. tubular cuff with the selvage thereof looped on to the knitting needles sumciently to form the hand of the glove or mitten.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 is a fragmentary View showing a short section of a piece of knit fabric illustrating certain features of the invention;

Figure 2 is a sectional View through Figure 1 on the line 2 2;

Figure 3 is a top plan View of the structure shown in Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a perspective View of the finished cuff, the same being formed of the exact material shown in Figure 1 with the lower edges sewed together;

a Figure 5 is a fragmentary sectional View through a well known form of fiat knitting inachine with a piece of fabric shown therein;

Figure 6 is a plan View of that part of the machine shown in Figure 5 which is used to knit the particular structure shown in Figs. l to 3, inelusive;

Figure 7 is a plan View of the cuff shown in Fig. 1 after the same has been knit on to the hand of a mitten or glove;

Figure 8 is a sectional view through Fig. 7 on the line 8 8, the same being on an enlarged scale.

Referring to the accompanying drawing by numeral, I indicates a piece of fabric knitted according to certain features of the invention, and 2 a finished cuff formed from the fabric shown in Fig. 3, the same having the raw or raveled edges secured together by the row of stitching 3. In Fig. 5 the machine 4 is shown partly in section, said machine being of an old and well known type, the same having the usual needles 5 and 6 with the usual guide 'I for knitting a piece of fabric. As shown in Figure 5 the fabric I is partly completed. It will be understood that this fabric could be knit to any desired length and then cut into shorter lengths and finally stitched together as shown in Fig. 4, to form the' desired sized cuff to be later applied to a' mitten or a glov'e. Y

In order to get the effect shown in Figure l it will be observed that two needles Il' and 9 are 5` operating on one side of the machine', while on the opposite side three needles. IIL. I I' vand I2 are operating. Needles I3 and I4 are held out of operation as are needles I5 and I6. The three needles Ill, II and I2 form the Various wales I1, l0 I 8 and I9, while needle 20 forms wale 2I. This same idea is carried out to the opposite edge of the piece of goods and the needles 22 and 23 form the outside wales 24 and 25. The yarn in between the various wales naturally forms the 15 respective floats 26, 2l, 28, 29 and 30. If desired the width of these floats could be varied by throwing out more or less needles and the selvages formed by the operating needles may be wider or narrower also, as preferred.

In forming a piece of goods it will be seen that there are provided what may be termed selvages 3l and 32 on the fabric I and after a desired length of fabric has been knit a desired portion thereof is cut olf and the two raveling or raw edges are brought together and held in place by a line of stitching as shown in Fig. 4. This forms a cuff for a mitten or a glove with the wales and floats acting as ornamental members as Well as useful members. 30

One way of knitting the fabric is to feed yarn to the needles of one bank, these needles being raised to latch clearing position. At the saine time the needles of the other bank are raised to tucking level and the yarn is fed in their hooks 35 without being knit. In the next course the needles of the second bank are raised to latch clearing position to receive yarn while the needles of` the second bank are raised to tucking level and the yarn is fed in their hooks. In the knitting of the second course the yarn 0f the first course which was fed to the needle hooks of the second bank is cast off without knitting, thus tying the two faces of the fabric together. Likewise in the knitting of the third course the yarn which was fed to the hooks of the needles of the rst bank is cast off without knitting.

Heretofore one of the raveling edges was looped onto a knitting machine for knitting the hand of the mitten or glove. When this was done every loop on the cuif must be looped on to the needle, as otherwise there would be produced a run. By forming the structure as shown in Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, the selvage 32 is used and looped over the desired number of needles which are selected to make the hand 34 of the mitten or glove.Y The expression hand will be understood to include a mitten or glove or other similar article. As shown in Figs. '7 and 8 the hand 34 has been knit onto the cuff 2 and when completed produces a complete mitten or glove, as the case may be, with one selvage looped into the hand 34 and the other selvage forming the outer edge of the cuff. It Will be evident that either of the selvages 3l or 32 may be used, in the illustration in the drawing the edge 32 being used as shown in Fig. 7.

When an operator grasps the edge 3l he merely lopos in regular order some of the stitches of this edge, the same being passed over the needles as shown in Fig. 5, and as soon as the desired number of needles has been supplied with loops which the operator evenly distributes, theV machine is ready for further operation. As soon vas the machine begins to operate it will begin to knit the hand 34, as shown in Fig. 4, and the appearance of the garment will be the same as if a raveling edge was used and all the loops of the fabric had been looped on to the desired needles. If for any reason the operator does not loop the selvage edge exactly evenly the result will be substantially the same as if it had been done evenly, as no runs will occur and the fnachine when it begins to function will knit the hand 34 in the usual manner. By this construction seconds caused by runs through false loop'- ing are eliminated and yet a very strong, uniform structure is presented.

I claim:

l. A double faced selvaged at knit rib fabric, each face having rib Wales and oats connecting said wales, at least some of the wales on one face being aligned with corresponding Wales on the other face, the Wales adjacent the selvage being closely spaced and contacting each other, and the intermediate wales being relatively widely spaced.

2. A cuff formed of a double faced selvaged flat knit rib fabric, each face having rib wales and floats connecting said Wales, at least some of the wales on one face being aligned with corresponding wales on the other face, the wales adjacent the selvage being closely spaced and contacting each other, and the intermediate Wales being relatively Widely spaced, all of the rib wales extending circumferentially with a group of rib Wales at each end.

CHARLES F. GANsoN. 

